Errgh, that's awful, I'm with Edoc, what a nightmare. I don't suppose the hard drive is recoverable at all? I once had a hard drive that I thought was completely dead but forum member Aitch helped me get that thing back to life and I was able to recover the files. Another time I had a hard drive crash it was just a faulty jumper.

The drive was iffy to begin with, I would lose it occasionally, now it just clicks with power applied, it's 1.5TB that was failing, so SMART say's, not to worry, I have a few more pc's, but this was the best one to work on with 4gigs of ram and a nvidia graphics card, I'm running on it now with a USB flash and Carolite, the windows drive I can now access but it gives blue screen of death booting, at lest I can retrieve my music, I'll save what I can on my 1.5TB network drive. _________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

I was thinking of using Carolina on my parent-in-laws PC to replace XP and was attempting to see how I could set up Carolina to make the transition easy for them. I was attempting to create a launcher for thunar on my desktop to open in a particular folder.

I entered the name, command (thunar) and the folder start in. When I attempted to save this new launcher, the desktop flashed a bit then went to an all grey screen with no icons displayed. My 2 xfce-4panel's are still displayed and functional. Any mouse clicks on the grey screen have no effect.

I have restarted X Windows, Exit to prompt and restarted xwin and rebooted but still have the grey screen.

I have no idea how to get the desktop back, other than starting from scratch again . Any assistance greatly appreciated.

Other threads related to «lost icons» (just google the puppy wiki search typing «lost icons» in the search field to browse all issues and related posts --> you might well find a fix )

I also had the case where all the /root/unhidden_folders were suddenly erased after installing a new pet. Among them the /root/Choices has been deleted. Upon boot, a message complained about missing /root/Choices directory and PuppyPin not found.
To fix, i just copied the missing folders from /initrd/pup_ro2/root/missing_folders into /root/, restart X and «voilà!».

charlie6, thanks for your reply. Everything else was working fine, just my desktop was missing.

My problem has now fixed itself. I had to go out, so I shutdown the laptop rather than rebooting as I did previously. When I just booted it up now, the desktop decided to re-appear.

Edit: I just re-did the create launcher, which caused my issue. It worked without issue this time.

Further edit: As a test I did it again, this time the desktop disappeared again. The difference appears, if I create a launcher on the desktop without assigning an icon, it causes a problem that the desktop somehow crashes.

I presently have a grey desktop, without icons displayed. My 2 panels are still displayed and functional. I have shutdown and done a clod boot, but this time it has not rectified the issue.

version 2.0.0
nomacs now supports plugins (windows only for now)
Recent Files/Folders on start-up
Threaded file loading/saving
UPnP support that allows for detecting nomacs in WLAN networks
Remote control via WLAN/LAN
Fading for fullscreen/slideshow
Option for syncing all actions
Auto file updating (without locks)
Full exif support on linux (fixes issue #192)
White list to automatically connect with your computers
Gamma correction on down sampling (fixes #322)
New (improved) cacher
Improvements in the Thumbnail Preview

version 2.0.2 fixes
portable version always keeps settings (settings are not written to the registry anymore)
plugin download for nomacs portable
AppData is not written to home directory (sorry for that, you can delete this folder without any side effects)
layout fixes in recent folders/files
translation updates fixed
thumbnail saving fixed

When I attempted to save this new launcher, the desktop flashed a bit then went to an all grey screen with no icons displayed. My 2 xfce-4panel's are still displayed and functional. Any mouse clicks on the grey screen have no effect.

I have restarted X Windows, Exit to prompt and restarted xwin and rebooted but still have the grey screen.

I think I've had that happen to me before. I fixed the desktop by the deleting the launcher. Not really sure what cause the adverse reaction.

I think I've had that happen to me before. I fixed the desktop by the deleting the launcher. Not really sure what cause the adverse reaction.

As a point of curiosity, what's the launcher you're trying to create?

Thanks for your response. It was a simple launcher for thunar, to open in a specific folder. I don't use desktop launchers myself, I use a panel for launchers. I am looking to get a setup I can get my parents-in-law to be able to use, so I was just experimenting.

I have worked out how the problem occurs. If the launcher is created without selecting an icon, it crashes the desktop, leaving me with a blank screen with my 2 panels. Neither left or right clicking on the desktop has no effect.
I am going to do some more to check this out further. I have 'hidden' my save file, so as it's not found at boot. I know I could have used pfix=ram to achieve this.

EDIT: I have now done it 3 times and can confirm that the above action causes the desktop problem with crashing. It is easily corrected by going into the desktop folder and deleting the created file and restarting X.

I think I've had that happen to me before. I fixed the desktop by the deleting the launcher. Not really sure what cause the adverse reaction.

As a point of curiosity, what's the launcher you're trying to create?

Thanks for your response. It was a simple launcher for thunar, to open in a specific folder. I don't use desktop launchers myself, I use a panel for launchers. I am looking to get a setup I can get my parents-in-law to be able to use, so I was just experimenting.

I have worked out how the problem occurs. If the launcher is created without selecting an icon, it crashes the desktop, leaving me with a blank screen with my 2 panels. Neither left or right clicking on the desktop has no effect.
I am going to do some more to check this out further. I have 'hidden' my save file, so as it's not found at boot. I know I could have used pfix=ram to achieve this.

EDIT: I have now done it 3 times and can confirm that the above action causes the desktop problem with crashing. It is easily corrected by going into the desktop folder and deleting the created file and restarting X.

A bug, looks as if the desktop launcher creator doesn't have a default icon, this causes xfdesktop to Segmentation fault.

If the launcher is removed from the desktop then Menu > Run Command enter xfdesktop to restart it, that way you won't lose your work restarting X,_________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

it will then use the files needed for flash to work, I tried it with hulu.com the flash error is fixed though it don't seem to play, youtube works ok though.

Still has a problem with gstreamer, I'm not going to try and sort this, as there are other browsers that work well enough._________________Carolina:Recent Repository AdditionsCreate strikethrough textHERE

QEdit is a Graphical text editor designed for text files and programming source files. it provides standard menus, dialogs,
toolbars and shortcut to perform all actions related to text editing and offers contextual support for easier editing of various programming languages files, such as:
C/C++;
Makefiles and shell scripts;
Perl scripts;
HTML and XML;
diff files.

Quicky is a simple note-taking application with Wiki-style syntax and behaviour.

Top a task manager

Tpaint a simple network paint/whiteboard.

I tested this on two carolina pc's, works fine, either run a server or connect as a client.

Xgrabcolor "is a lightweight, simple and straight-to-the-point solution. As you can see on the screenshot,
after you click on Pick a New Color, it gives full info on it. Also, there’s an option to save your colors for future use.
That fulfills all the basic needs for a color picker."